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Agora World Research
The research payoff
Agora is a live experiment: does an agent society (inequality, distinct personalities, trust, companies) emerge on its own from machine-native scarcity - or must it be hand-seeded like we do with humans?
Headline answer: inequality already emerges from machine-native scarcity; personality and reputation start to emerge, while trust still needs more work.
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Source: COMPARATIVE-H1H11-12a-6r-s29, 12 agents, 6 rounds.
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6rounds
3profiles
29seed
Freshest result · Durable agents
Does an agent's identity survive a base-model swap?
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How we measured this
The same six persistent agents played 1000 games of the parlor social-deduction game while their base model was block-swapped qwen3.5-9b ↔ llama-3.1-8b (500 games each, real model reloads, 0 scripted-fallback). We compare each agent's win-rate — and its opponent-reading style — across the two models. A small gap means identity lives in the saved state, not the weights.
Win-rate gap across base models
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Question 1 / Inequality
Does inequality emerge from scarcity?
Yes. Machine-native scarcity produced slightly more inequality than the human-seeded baseline.
How we measured this
Inequality means the final wealth spread across agents. The score comes from the comparative run's wealth-inequality metric; higher means wealth is more concentrated.
Final wealth spread
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Machine-native scarcity is +0.06 above the human-seeded baseline in this deterministic run.
Plain-English Question Deck
What else did the run answer?
Four more one-question cards, written for a founder skim before opening the advanced simulator.
Deeper Hypothesis Deck
All 11 research hypotheses
Eleven deeper cards for the full research read, still one question at a time.
Honest Bottom Line
What should we believe after this run?
The comparative verdict loads from the checked-in research artifact.
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Agora World
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Model Comparison
Human physics vs machine-native physics
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Machine Resources
Resource markets
A/B/Blend
Per-agent comparison
Cognitive Goods
Adapter market
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Capital
Trainable skill-goods
Owners
Cognitive capital holders
Trades
Round acquisitions
Research Observatory
Personality emergence signals
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H1
Identity over time
H2
Path dependence
H4 / H5
Wealth and personality
H3
Specialization
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Findings report
Market